Clean Cities: Fort Collins, Colorado

11.01.2012

Fort Collins, Colorado is leading the way in alternative fuel use and public transit efficiency.

Thirty-percent of the city’s nearly two-thousand vehicle fleet is powered by alternative fuels including compressed natural gas, propane, B-20, E-85, along with hybrid, and electric vehicles.All 37 public transit buses are either powered by compressed natural gas or biodiesel, and by 2014, the entire fleet will run on CNG. 70-percent of the fuel used by city vehicles doesn’t come from petroleum, leading to an 800 ton reduction in municipal C-O-2 emissions.